Course Description:

Director Fundamentals provides multimedia developers with the knowledge and hands-on experience required to build rich media sequences for both the web and CD-ROM. This two day course is a practical, hands-on course which covers working with animations, building interactivity, working with Shockwave, using the power of Lingo and utilising databases.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to create, import and sequence media elements in Director, publish animations for use on the web and in multimedia productions and understand the essentials of the Lingo/JavaScript programming environment.

This authorised course is designed to enable you to harness the power of Ado…

Description

Course Description:

Director Fundamentals provides multimedia developers with the
knowledge and hands-on experience required to build rich media
sequences for both the web and CD-ROM. This two day course is a
practical, hands-on course which covers working with animations,
building interactivity, working with Shockwave, using the power of
Lingo and utilising databases.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to create,
import and sequence media elements in Director, publish animations
for use on the web and in multimedia productions and understand the
essentials of the Lingo/JavaScript programming environment.

This authorised course is designed to enable you to harness the
power of Adobe Director quickly and easily.

This course includes the following modules:

Director basics

Creating a storyboard

The Cast, Score and Stage

Importing cast members

Working with sprites

Using inks to alter the relationship between sprites

Editing cast members

Using the Paint window

Internal and external casts

Using the score

How the score is structured

The control panel

Making the score easy to read

Adding markers

Animation

Basic animation techniques

Using the Timeline

Tweening techniques

Working with key frames

Previewing your animation

Reversing animations

Creating film loops

Transitions, sounds, video and Flash

Adding and editing transitions

Drag and drop behaviours

Using blends in the score

Using the sound channels

Using the vector drawing tools

Importing video

Controlling digital video

Importing Flash content

Adding interactivity

Using the Behaviours Inspector

Markers and navigation

Using Lingo scripts for navigation

Advanced navigation techniques

Navigating between Director movies

Using the Library palette

Drag and drop behaviours

Buttons

Built-in button Behaviours

Custom cursors and buttons

Fonts and menus

Alpha channels and masks

Sprite properties and palettes

Importing 32 bit images

PSD vs PNG

Learning Lingo

Useful Lingo scripts

Adapting Lingo scripts

Different types of scripts

When to use different scripts

Handlers and Events

Navigating with Lingo

Controlling Sprites with Lingo

Controlling sound with Lingo

Synchronising with digital video

Cropping digital video

Optimising your movie

Using Cue Points in video

Controlling video with Lingo

Cross platform issues

Keyboard control

Working with DVD video

DVD support

DVD events manager

3D in Director

Importing W3D files

Overview of Director 3D

3D sprite properties

Using 3D behaviours

Exporting from Director

Creating a Projector

Embedding fonts

File size issues

Using Xtras

The Shockwave format

Testing your movie

Creating an AutoRun file for CD-ROMs

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